High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aladdin (Arabic: علاء الدين, ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, IPA: meaning, "glory of religion") is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland (see sources and setting).